Strode by the Riverside...: No Occasion Holiday Weekend!

I know that there were a bunch of holidays over the weekend- Cinco de Mayo, National Nurse's Day, May Day, some environmental thingy-day, and all could easily be spread over the weekend. There was even a march on Sunday for rights or something.

But that's not why I was having fun!

PD came to visit so I was FREAKING out all week to make sure that things went well and we had enough to do and stuff.

Sadly, it caught up to me.

Friday morning when I woke up after a few hours sleep- I felt it. I had a sore throat and I could tell it wasn't going away anytime soon.

I decided that I wasn't going to let it get the best of me and I was going to have fun anyway!

Friday night, after a funtabulous tour of the school, we left for Fort Worth to see Dixie's Tupperware Party which was one of my favorite shows. It is also a real tupperware party. It was almost the exact same show I had seen years prior when it was still new. It still didn't change that it was hilarious. We went to bed after that- I was exhausted from cleaning and work, he was exhausted from the long drive. We picked up the dogs from Debbie's and bunkered down for the night.

*as a side note- that was a last minute plan I didn't plan on. The original plan was to do a Dallas by Chocolate tour. It was supposed to be a pizza and beer dinner (minus the beer for us) and visiting 4-5 different chocolate places around the area by limo! I had already paid for it but Thursday night it was cancelled because it was 'too cold'. Don't they have hot chocolate??

Anyway....

Saturday, I had extra plans and things and stuffs to do. Sadly, my cold worsened and I was absolutely dragging. I didn't have it in me to ask PD to go home. I also didn't want to be a bad host and do nothing. There was a lot riding on this weekend! After a few hours of him asking me to 'get up'- I really was trying... I just didn't have any energy. We missed our brunch reservation for Reunion Tower- which is ok, it's super expensive. We did make it to our Dinner and a Flight from Delta Charlie's. I had this specially set up with a time that wasn't offered- and I have to say it was pretty amazing. The air was a bit choppy and blew around the little plane, but I didn't expect much from a 4 seater plane anyway. The dinner was pretty good as well. I definitely loved our pilot, Terry. He also kept up a conversation and flew us almost directly over Dallas skyline! He pointed out Cowboy's stadium and Fort Worth in the distance. Nice to have a bird's eye view.

Isn't it adorable?

So, I felt a little sick before the ride, fabulous without any problems during the ride, and horrendously sick after. He had to drive my car back from Red Oak because I simply couldn't. We stopped at a pharmacy and I maxed out on every kind of drugs I could think of that had different ingredients. I lost about an hour in my haze. We missed our show of "Almost Maine" hosted by my sister school, Brookhaven. I felt horrible, but in such a little venue (70 seats total), I couldn't be sneezing, coughing, and blowing my nose every few seconds. I had planned to sleep a little, but still get up (like around 10p) to take him out for ice cream. We have a place that allows you to serve your own toppings which is pretty awesome. Nope, slept through all of it.

Sunday, we were supposed to sneak in to a special ward conference for my old stake. Everyone was buzzing about an apostle being around. They never announced who was where, so I took my chances. We ended up seeing the president of the 70, but heard there were 2 apostles, one in Fort Worth the other in Plano. The message was still good- about missionary work and always being a missionary. I wish I could've enjoyed it more. I had to keep getting up and walking around the halls. It was the only way I could continue breathing. I never thought breathing could be so exhausting!

Dallas Skyline

Fairgrounds

We were bad (and I was feeling guilty). Before PD had to leave, we went for the ice cream I had planned for the day before. It was next to a Cheesecake Factory and after PD said he had never been to one- well, we went there too. I felt like he had a decent time (I hope). I tried not to be too sickly and boring.